Re: Lean and clean IMAP client
Mutt is a beautiful thing.
It takes a little getting used to, and does graphics and things via helpers,
as it's a text-mode MUA, but I use it with multiple IMAP servers and a local
Maildir mail folder system flawlessly. It lets you customize just about
anything, so when I'm replying to mail from a particular server or a
particular person, I can have it automatically change my headers to match.
And, if you set up the OpenLDAP tools, you can configure it to use LDAP for
its addressbook. This I haven't done, but it's been hinted at in the docs.
http://www.mutt.org
Oh, and yeah, you can use any editor with mutt. I've used xemacs before, and
it works fine, although lately I've been using zile since it's so much
faster.
dave
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 9:21 am, Rohan Nicholls expounded thusly:
> I have been using the mozilla imap client for my mail for a while now,
> and am finding it very resource hungry.
>
> I have tried to get gnus working with teh exchange server at work, but
> it will only see the inbox, and not its subfolders, and I find the lack
> of multithreading (so stops while waiting for mail) a bit of a problem.
>
> I am thinking of installing evolution on the advice of another user, and
> saw that it wants to install 30 megs of libraries etc. so that has made
> me pause, although the possibility of being able to access the ldap
> server would be nice....
>
>
> I have read and searched the web and tried out various clients, but
> there are surprisingly few that imap happily.:)
>
>
> I am looking for advice on: a lean imap client (I have switched to
> pheonix browser-wise and don't want the overhead of mozilla just for
> mail), and/or an ldap client that talks to exchange server. If both
> come in the same package so much the better. I use emacs a lot, so if
> they can integrate with emacs to allow me to compose in emacs I would be
> in heaven.:)
>
> thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> rohan
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